Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Author
Series
Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Slider believes that an apparent suicide is a murder leading to a trail of alibis, suspicions, and surprise witnesses all of which must be dealt with before the killer strikes again.
Author
Series
Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
When the strangled corpse of a nearly seventeen-year-old girl, a bright, gifted student, talented artist, and musician respected by her teachers and peers at an excellent all-girls church school, is discovered in a London park near her home, dressed like a tart, Slider and his team investigate.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sphere
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The final book in Cynthia's War at Home series. 'Always a stay-up-all-night read with Cynthia Harrod-Eagles! ***** 'Fabulous series of books, this author never disappoints' ***** 'I love Cynthia Harrold-Eagles' historical novels' ***** 1919: The war is over, but peace is yet to come. As men are demobbed, women must give up positions that gave them freedom. Edward is given an important job at the Peace Conference in Paris, but it means more lonely...
Author
Series
Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Rogers was handsome, charming, and rich-- until someone killed him in the hallway of his million-plus-pound house. Was he killed for passion, professional jealousy, or plain old money? Slider soon discovers that nothing is as it seems.
Author
Series
Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 16
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Bill Slider must cut his vacation short when an old-fashioned gentleman is bludgeoned to death with a bronze statue.
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Language
English
Description
When Melanie Hunter uncharacteristically disappears, the men in her life come under suspicion. It soon becomes clear that there are many secrets in Melanie's past. Bill Slider and his team are investigating and they will have to unravel lies, half-truths and deceptions to find the answer to their questions.
Author
Series
Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 17
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The post-Christmas lull is officially over.... The deceased is antiques expert Rowland Egerton, the darling of daytime TV, stabbed to death in his luxurious West London home. Egerton's partner, the granite-faced John Lavender, found the body; did he also do the deed? Or was it a burglary gone wrong? As Slider and his team investigate, none of the facts seem to fit. And it soon becomes clear that the much-loved, charming Mr Egerton wasn't as universally...
Author
Series
Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Detective Inspector Bill Slider is called in to investigate a mutilated corpse abandoned in a children's playground, and he follows a trail that leads to a ruthless crime baron who will do anything to keep his identity secret.
Author
Series
Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Bill Slider and his team face yet another mystery when an unidentifiable man is found dead. It 'appears' that he has commited suicide but all the signs point to murder.
Author
Series
Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 18
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A middle-aged man jumps under a tube train at Shepherd's Bush station, and a teenage girl is killed in a hit-and-run, in a country lane puzzlingly far from her home on the White City Estate: two unrelated incidents which occupy DCI Bill Slider and his team during a slack period. At least it's a change of speed after the grind of domestics, burglaries and Community Liaison. But links to a cold case--another dead teenager, pulled out of the River Thames--create...
Author
Series
Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 21
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When one of London's best-known literary agents is found dead in strange circumstances, having fallen headlong from his office window, DCI Slider is under pressure from the Borough Commander to confirm a case of accidental death. But when the evidence points to murder, Slider and his team find themselves uncovering some decidedly scandalous secrets in the suave and successful Ed Wiseman's past. An embittered ex-wife. A discarded mistress. A frustrated...
Author
Series
War at home volume 2
Publisher
Sphere
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The war was not 'over by Christmas' after all and as 1915 begins, the Hunters begin to settle into wartime life. Diana, the eldest Hunter daughter, sees her fiance off to the Front but doesn't expect such coldness from her future mother-in-law. David's battalion is almost ready to be sent to the Front, but how will Beattie's fragile peace of mind endure? Below stairs, Ethel, the under housemaid, is tired of having her beaux go off to war so she deliberately...
Author
Series
War at home volume 3
Publisher
Sphere
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
It is 1916 and the Hunters, their friends and their servants are settling down to the business of war. As conscription reaches into every household, Britain turns out men and shells in industrial numbers from army camps and munitions factories up and down the land. Bobby, the second Hunter son, gains his wings and joins his brother in France. Ethel, the under housemaid, embarks on a quest and Laura Hunter sets out on her biggest adventure yet. Diana,...
Author
Series
Ashmore Castle volume 1
Publisher
Sphere
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Behind the doors of the magnificent Ashmore Castle, secrets are waiting to be uncovered . . . 1901. When the Earl of Stainton dies in a tragic hunting accident, Giles, the eldest son of the noble Tallant family, must step forward to replace him as the head of the family. But Giles has avoided the Castle and his stifling relatives for years, deciding instead to forge his own path away from the spotlight. Now, he must put aside his ambitions and honour...
Author
Series
Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 20
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Bill Slider and his team investigate the murder of a victim with a decidedly shady past in this gripping contemporary mystery. The body of a smartly-dressed businessman turns up in the yard of Eli Simpson's car workshop. But there's no ID in the pockets and Eli swears he's never seen the man before. Then a girlfriend turns up with a name, and claims the victim told her he was someone's ?right hand man?. But old fractures and scars, discovered at the...
Author
Series
War at home volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Set against the events of 1914 at the outbreak of World War I, the Hunter family, their servants, their neighbors, and the denizens of the once-tranquil village of Northcote, England, all must deal with the harsh realities of a violent and rapidly changing world.